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No slave laws existed in the Maritimes, except in St John’s Island (later Prince Edward Island, where a 1781 slave baptism law legalized the institution until its repeal in 1825), yet owners
Stewart]. During the 1870s Nelson moved to Prince Edward Island and established himself as an importer and repairer of sewing machines, acting as agent for Wanzer sewing machines [see
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The Newcomb and Prince families had deep New England roots. John Newcomb was an innovative but desperately poor schoolteacher who moved the family to various parts of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward
1862 Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia followed suit. The Nova Scotia cup was the grand prize at a match held at Truro on 10–12 Sept. 1862. Newman’s creation of this cup, which he
Nichol’s own. He duly reported the affair to Brock, noting also American troop movements at Detroit and Michilimackinac (Mackinac Island, Mich.).
In his
Prince Edward Island for service in Burma.
The personal motives for Norris’s mission goal cannot be understood apart from her evangelical faith. There
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In 1794 Prince Edward Augustus became commander-in-chief of the Nova Scotia military district, and Ogilvie
1899 to become a commercial traveller. But two years later he moved to Prince Edward Island to run the Halifax Breweries plant there, and by 1904 he was back in Halifax as general manager for the firm
helped to bring down the government of Dunsmuir’s successor, Edward Gawler Prior, in June 1903. Richard McBride
, in his memory, changed the course of his life. In 1860 he was chosen by the chiefs of the Six Nations Council to deliver an address of welcome to the visiting Prince of Wales. At age 19
, Osborn led a sledge party south-westward to the western extreme of Prince of Wales Island. This 500-mile journey revealed no undiscovered coasts and other parties covered much greater distances. By far the
OULTON, ROBERT TRENHOLM, farmer and co-founder of the silver fox industry in Prince Edward Island; b. c. 1835 in Mount
.” Elizabeth’s first article about life in Charlottetown, based on her recollections of the mid 1840s, was published in October 1900 in the Prince Edward Island Magazine. This publication was
Charlottetown.
Lemuel Owen’s grandfather Arthur Owen was one of a small but influential group of immigrants to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island from the
himself.
Eventually, O’Brien, through his extensive wholesale-retail trade, was importing coal from Sydney, N.S., vegetables from Prince Edward Island
France and England. In 1884 his exports of lobster totalled nearly 750,000 pounds. Two years later he controlled about 15 canneries in Kent County and four in Prince Edward Island. In 1895 he owned 30 or
. After his arrival in the Prince Edward Island capital five days later, O’Leary was installed in the pro-cathedral; his cathedral, St Dunstan’s, had been destroyed by fire in March. He set himself to
Edward Island), undoubtedly as much because of difficulties with Governor Lawrence Armstrong* as because no missionary had yet been assigned
. 1889 in Charlottetown.
Edward Palmer’s father, an Irish attorney, came to Prince Edward Island in 1802 as land agent for an absentee proprietor. From
Palmer’s admission that he had “failed in his circumstances” before coming to Prince Edward Island as a land agent. He arrived in August 1802 as the agent of the Reverend Raphael Walsh of Dublin, half